USB, Toshiba

[Jason Shaw]

I would think that it should "just work" by mounting it.  Have you run dmesg
when you plug the drive in/power it on to see if Linux notices something
plugged in?  Take a look at /dev/ to see if there is /dev/sd[bcdef]1, which
should be one letter beyond your optical drive (if you have one).  So, if
your hard disk is sda, and optical drive is sdb, then your external drive
will most likely be sdc.

dmesg is your best starting point though as it will show you the device name
so that you can mount it manually.

-jason

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

>  How it is with USB. I am aware that my question may be somewhat silly.
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> There is this:
> /sbin/lsusb
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> It lists devices connected through USB.
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> Why sometime not all devices are listed? I noticed that twice: a sort of
> USB webcam was not listed, and now I have at work an external 2 TB drive
> (Toshiba) that is not listed.
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> I would rather think that all connected to USB ports devises should be
> listed. If they could be used from Linux - thats another question, possibly.
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> BTW, instruction for that Toshiba external drive writes: manual is on the
> disk itself. Yhm... So I would have to access the drive from windows to read
> manual. Yhm... I noticed though by scanning the web that Toshiba does rather
> not offer Linux support.
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> Anyway, any ideas if I am able to use that external USB drive?
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